Can someone please give some more information on how to implement this. Please

Please give a little detail about how to execute this commands. PLease help. Thanks

P.S. - Sorry for double posts

As said, run the command to back up everything before you do anything else.

I'm running winXP, if you have vista, mac or anything else.. well improvise :p

I'm using Putty for SSH and WinSCP for File Transfers.


Before you update, ssh into your phone and run the command

Code:

dpkg- l | awk '{print $2}' > installed_packages.txt

As seen here:



Log in to winscp

And copy the file to your hard drive.
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then open it and delete the lien name and everything above it, so something along these lines:

Code:

Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems
Name

will be deleted.

Go into Cydia, copy down all the sources you have.

Update and Jailbreak your phone. When done, go into cydia and install OpenSSH and add any sources that aren't there. I rebooted my phone at this point, not sure if you have to.

Log into winscp, and copy the file back to root (easier to get to that way :p)

Next log into putty, and navigate to root and run

Code:

apt-get install `cat installed_packages.txt`

It will ask you to confirm, say yes and watch. It will spit out a bunch of infomationa nd tell you when done you can check in Cydia once again:


that it's isntalled. I rebooted my phone, but a springboard restart would probably do and you have your apps back:



Hopefully that helps some.

I've tried to do this, but keep getting this error.

-sh: dpkg-: command not found

What am I doing wrong?

Many thanks
Gonz.

Originally Posted by Gonz

I've tried to do this, but keep getting this error.

-sh: dpkg-: command not found

What am I doing wrong?

Many thanks
Gonz.

Just a guess, command is

dpkg -l

That's 'dpkg' space dash and the letter L. It look like you're typing dpkg dash space...

That was it!

Many thanks. Oh dont forget the 'ls' command in the next line.

Cheers again!!!

@Ryuujinx: thanks a lot. Very much appreciated.

Cheers,
Indsha008

@Ryuujinx: thanks a lot. Very much appreciated.

Cheers,
Indsha008

that's great stuff guys thanks

3 questions though:
1)I have few apps which require to add sources first. Do I have to add them on Cydia before running the command?
2)how to add sources using command line?
3)will that command includes Cydia updates or this will require me to run Cydia to update ?

Originally Posted by Boiling Ice

that's great stuff guys thanks

3 questions though:
1)I have few apps which require to add sources first. Do I have to add them on Cydia before running the command?
2)how to add sources using command line?
3)will that command includes Cydia updates or this will require me to run Cydia to update ?

1) Yes.

2) I'm sure there's technically a sources file -somewhere- but it's easier to just go into cydia and add them there.

3) You need to run the cydia updates before it even lets you install SSH, doesn't it? In theory it would update Cydia (a few packages were like Coreutils and cydia itself in the installed_packages list)

Originally Posted by Gonz

That was it!

Many thanks. Oh dont forget the 'ls' command in the next line.

Cheers again!!!

'ls' isn't actually needed, it's just a habit I have when I create files in a CLI (be it windows or linux) to make sure the file is where I thought it would end up.